Season 1
23 episodes · Sep 26, 1987
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S1E1Happy Days Are Here Again
Sep 26, 198760mSenator candidate Kyle Williams' lover is killed after she threatens to reveal their affair. His speechwriter admits to him that he was the murderer, but threatens to frame him unless he cooperates.
S1E2Fatal Attraction (1)
Sep 29, 198760mCarson Warfield is having an affair with his stepmother, and together they kill his father and frame a thief who used to work for them. When things don't add up McCabe gets suspicious, and starts nosing around.
S1E3Fatal Attraction (2)
Sep 29, 198760mCarson Warfield is having an affair with his stepmother, and together they kill his father and frame a thief who used to work for them. When things don't add up McCabe gets suspicious, and starts nosing around.
S1E4Laura
Oct 6, 198760mJake's former partner is killed by his fiancée in an alley. She blames the murder on a Latin kid she saw stealing a VCR just before she pulled the trigger.
S1E5The Man That Got Away
Oct 13, 198760mA wealthy lawyer kills his ex-wife's new man and frames her for the murder. She is arrested, and he takes the job of being her lawyer.
S1E6Love for Sale
Oct 20, 198760mA call girl discovers that her pimp uses her to smuggle drugs. She contacts McCabe, but is killed just as they meet.
S1E7Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Oct 27, 198760mFor some time David Thompson has gone out and killed bums, so that the police believe a serial killer is loose. Then when he lures his brother to an alley and kills him the same way, he won't be a suspect.
S1E8Body and Soul
Nov 3, 198760m""Mad"" Marvin Michaels, the owner of an electronics store, is killed, and ex-con Bradford Long is the main suspect. McCabe assigns the case to the cop Karen Stetson, whose father was killed by Long.
S1E9The Man I Love
Nov 10, 198760mGlen Latimer pushes his newly married rich wife Nancy of their boat, but she survives and is brought to a hospital. She is unsure if it was just an accident, so Jake goes befriends Glen posing as Nancy's brother.
S1E10Love Me Or Leave Me
Nov 17, 198760mEd Galvin escapes while he is being transported to prison, after threatening the life of McCabe and Andy Harmon (the cop who arrested him) during his trial.
S1E11Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Dec 1, 198760mA burglar kills a woman and blinds her nurse before fleeing. The police catch him, but have to let him go because the nurse can't identify him. When she is scheduled for an operation that could restore her eyesight, they fear he'll try to kill her.
S1E12Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Dec 8, 198760mOne of the deputy DAs finally gets her first murder case when a man she was investigating for skipping alimony payments turns up dead.
S1E13After You've Gone
Jan 5, 198860mJake spots the hit man Sagittarius at the airport and follows him, but he spots Jake and is fatally wounded in the following gunfight. Jake takes his place to try to find out who the target was.
S1E14It Had to Be You
Jan 12, 198860mLeslie Randall, a former PR manager for McCabe is raped. The rapist, a psychiatrist, frames one of his patients with an anonymous tip to the police.
S1E15But Not for Me
Jan 19, 198860mA known mob man is killed in the home of star reporter Candace Morgan. She says he was shot through the window while she was interviewing him, but McCabe gets suspicious when there is one too many bullets.
S1E16What Is This Thing Called Love?
Jan 26, 198860mA man takes a courtroom hostage - with Derek and McCabe in it.
S1E17Lady, Be Good
Feb 2, 198860mA friend of McCabe is murdered just as he is about to fake his own death so his wife can collect a 4.5 million-dollar life insurance.
S1E18I'll Be Seeing You
Feb 16, 198860mA small time crook comes to McCabe offering to testify against the crime boss O'Rourke, after laying low for ten years. McCabe is suspicious, but is more than willing to go along with anything that can get O'Rourke behind bars.
S1E19Babyface
Feb 23, 198860mThe daughter of the wealthy Amos Banning arranges her own kidnapping, and murders her accomplice once she has the ransom.
S1E20Blues in the Night
Mar 16, 198860mJennifer Wilding gets a surprise when her identical twin sister turns up wanting to resume their previous partnership - one steals jewelry and the other provides an alibi.
S1E21How Long Has This Thing Been Going On?
Mar 23, 198860mA friend of Jake, Matthew Hammond, is having an affair with a rich lady. They decide to marry, but when she asks her husband for a divorce, he kills her and frames Hammond.
S1E22I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans
Mar 30, 198860mA former cop who is now a crime writer commits a clever murder so that he can write a book about it that is likely to become a best seller.
S1E23Rhapsody in Blue
Apr 6, 198860mNed Covington and his wife plan to kill his boss, Phil Duncan, when he is passed over for promotion, but they kill another employee by mistake. Realizing this they try to frame Duncan for the murder.